Ouch!

Last night was chaotic at our house. My mom, sister and brother were over. Austin had a school project to design a house. Since my sister is going to school to be an architect (actually two of them are) I figured this would be a good project to “hand off” to her. And I knew Austin would enjoy working with Aunt Barbara.

At one point I recall my mom searching for construction paper… she was in Austin’s room. I also recall her telling me I needed to get a new tack for Austin’s dream catcher because the cat had knocked it off the wall. I recall all that now… but NOT when I went into his room looking for something. It wasn’t until said tack was embedded in my heel that I remembered what my mom said.

The tack was embedded so far I had to have my sister remove it because it was stuck in my heel.

So, if you’re looking for me today… I’ll be sitting, right here! Thankfully I can wear sneakers to work, but even they hurt to have on my foot. In some sick way though, I am glad it was me who stepped on it and not one of the kids. I can’t imagine the tears that would have accompanied that. As it was, my scream was loud enough to have Jeff running up from the basement.

I was once at a relative’s house for a birthday party. There were at least 10-15 children present and playing all evening in their toy room throughout the party. It wasn’t until the end of the night when we were picking up that we found the blade of an Exacto knife sticking out of the carpet. We had no idea how it had gotten there, or better yet how everyone had completely avoided it. Talk about lucky….that night everyone at the party was blessed with a little luck.